EDITORIAL
MV500 Plan Condemns Otsego
To Low-Salary, Seasonal Jobs
Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from this week's editorial in Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman's Journal, on newsstands in Oneonta, Cooperstown and beyond this afternoon.
Otsego County has been dealt out of the Utica-Marcy STEM and nanotechnology boom in the MV500 application submitted to the state Monday, Oct. 5, a huge disappointment to anyone who cares about economic development locally.
That can’t stand.
MV500 is a six-county team – Otsego is one of the counties represented – pulled together over the summer to prepare the application for a half-billion dollars from Governor Cuomo’s Upstate Development Fund.
